Abstract
This chapter examines representation of Iran and Iranians in American popular culture. It delineates the broader interpretative framework through which audiences make sense of Iran and the geopolitical world. It offers an expansive view across a range of genres that includes discussions of popular film, memoires, and television entertainment. It explains how geopolitics of resurgent America, hostage crisis, axis of evil, and war on terror and narratives of popular culture play co-constitutive roles in the formation of that interpretative framework as they relate to Iran. The chapter returns to some of the empirical findings regarding the coverage of the Iran Deal to place them within this interpretative framework. The chapter ultimately aims to reveal the place Iran occupies in the American political and cultural imagination.